Polish Socialist Party

The Polish Socialist Party (PPS) was a democratic socialist party in Poland which existed from 23 November 1892 to 1948 as a major party and from 1987 as a minor party. The party was founded in Paris by Polish exiles in 1892, and the party adhered to nationalism, seeking to create a free and independent state of Poland separate from the Russian Empire. Many PPS leaders backed Jozef Pilsudski's May 1926 coup, but Pilsudski's tyrannical rule would lead to the PPS opposing his rule; several PPS leaders were jailed at the Bereza Kartuska prison. The party would later merge with the Polish United Workers' Party in 1948, but the party was re-formed in 1987 to continue the former PPS's politics. However, the party was confined to the margins of Polish politics.